Improvement in track-rope hay elevator and carrier



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" l'NITI'zD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. E. II. CARPENTER, OFDEX'IER, MICHIGAN.

y iwiPfr-OvEivrEisi-ry I N' V'rrmcK-no`PF. HAY ELEvAToR Ann-CARRIER.

- Specification forming part of Letters Alatent No. 52,676, dat-d February 20, I

i' To all 'whom it may concern: A Be ita-.known that I, EPEIRAIM; (YARPENJ TER, of the town of Dexter, in 'the county of Washtenaw'and State of Michigan, haxeiw vented a .new andnseful Hay' Elevator` and Carrier for elevating and ,transporting hay from the load into the inowkor'other place of deposit: and I do 'hereby d'elare that the following .is a full, clear, and exact description .of the construction and operation of the same,

reference being; had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this-specification, in which- Figui-'e1 is aside elevation. Figui? is a 1ongitndinal vertical section.

Simi-lar lettersof reference indicate corre.

sponding parts in both of the figures;

c 'This invention consists'in lthe use of va tight-, ropc'track, and of a hoisting and conveying rope, in combination with a peculiar carriage,

" eachof the ropesbeing fitted with an adjust#y able stop, andthe several-parts of the carriage 1 operated and arranged. in 'relation with each other, and with 1the said ropes, as hereinafter specified; and to enable others skilled in 4the art to construct and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe it.

,' A' represents the track-ropeon'which the hay-carriage travels.A It' lsupposed'to extend acrossthe'mow, near toand parallel.

with theridge-pole of the barn, and as shown ,as broken oif in the drawings, to indicate the deficiency, as represented, ofproper propor-l tionate length."

j vAt the end nearest conti guousfthegentrance ofthe ybarn therope A( is attached to a tight,A

'en ing-lever,.L,`and at the opposite end to the pulley-block P3which is fitted 'with a hook to connect it with the barn in such manner as to enableitto bereadly moved lfroml one place lto another when it is desired. to change vthe directielid, thko indicates one of incisi-tresor the frame-01;*

casing of my track-rope hay-carriage, which casing carries two grooved track-wheels, W, ay sheave-pulley, P4, and has a bell-shaped guard, Gr', through which the draft-rope A2 passes, and is furnished with other parts,

which will be more briey and best explained in describing thezinodeot' operation. l

The track' anddraft ropes are each provided with an :adjustable quill-stop, the one on the draftrope (marked S) I call Vthe elevatingg7 and the one (marked S2) .on the track-rope the carrying stop` These stops are simplycontv cal detached smiling-boxes with screw-glands,

in whicha'sinall selected'porticn of the. rope is packed, withl hemp or other suitablev material.,

in the sanie manne as. the rod of a steam-enf gine. This does notweaken the rope, and

fastens the stop ui'amcvably to it when packed properly.v

The 'rope 'A2' passes i from the draft-animal; under pulleyT P( up to a suitable height, and

over pulley P2, thence to and around 'the pull'eyin thev block P3, and back over thecarriage sheave-pul1ey P4, from whence it passes dow-n through the guard Gr to the loaded torlr-,t-ivhich.V v

isnot exhi'bted,'as any. of the known tiltingA .kinds may be used with my Iarran srenlen't Without alteration.

Tliemode of operation is as follows: The

track-rope A1 having been properly adjusted and tigh-te'lieLand the carrying-stop Szfastened to the same in such.a position .'asto place thefcarri age 'over the center of' the hoistd ing place, the fork is .run into thehay and the horsefstarte'd up, vas usual.

T-he loadedY forkj ascends into the mow until, I

lthe elevating-stop,-passin'g up 4through `the guard G, strikes against two hinged seat-s, B B (which rest atnn the casingfbottoxn closeto the rope) and lifts them up so as `to allowgthe' said stop'to pass-by, when the seats .fall' back to their first position and-'enables the-'stop tolA sustain the load- While moving it horizontally to. the mow. AJust as the stop has clearedv the -seats-,it strikes against a' bent end'inotriug in tripping over the fork in any ot' the usual ways.

The horse is now baCRedup, and the ,car-v l riage and empty fork is runback bya rope,

A3,.or in an)Y other way, until the catch, E slipsover the carrying-stop, when the fork'is lowered and the 'operationrepeated until all the hay is transferred to the -mow or other place of deposit.

To liberate the elevating-stops Sl', in order to. permit the fork to be lowered, the operator must pull .the rope A4, which is attached to an arm, a, of one of the pair of quadrant-geared.

wheels, J, which are keyed on the overhang of the seat-spindles. This causes the seats to ren volve suiciently toA allow the stop toV pass.

through. Ou lettingv go the rope theV seats fall back by the overpoise of the weightedurm e, or in place thereof:anbrdinary-spring may be used, ory the seats may be so {collstructed and arranged as to fall bytheir own gravity. y.

0 represents a roller pivoted intothe'car :lage-frame, which I employ to prevent the ropeA sagging While elevating, and to furnish a bearing for the carrying-stop.

The use-of the bell-shaped guard Gris t0. prevent thedraft-rope fraying when, from the l -sag of the-track-rope A', the center line of the carriage is' not vertical or inline with `the loaded endvof the draft-rope'A.

:I'doinot wishv to confine the u'seof my arran gement, as described, to elevating and conveying hay iuto'the' hay-mow of a barn, as it is evident that itvmay be used anywhere that it is possible to'ind or construct adequate I points'of support for the track-rope.

I do not clan broadly, elevating and conf .veying hay suspended from a carriage, as pel-5.

manent central tracks have been used with wheel-carriages from which the suspended hay had to be swung laterally to its' place.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s-f 1 I 1; The use of the track anddraft ropes'AL A2, combined with the stops S' as an i for the purposes specified.

2. Theemployment of said ropes and stops,'.l in combination with a hay elevating and=conveying carriage, constructed, arranged, an operated substantially as herein described.

' V E. ILUARPENTERH Witnesses:

' A. O. HYDE,

GEQRGE- J oHN'soN. 

